Quote from: adam3us on August 10, 2016, 11:15:37 AM

Actually you can soft-fork CT. https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2016-January/012194.html

Fair enough. It moves the entire set of CTs into a data structure. Old clients just verify the total of the confidential transaction outputs.

It is a complex soft fork like segregated witness which adds additional data structures to the blockchain.

Since the "nuclear option" can completely replace the rules with another set of rules, "soft fork" can mean a very extensive change, depending on where you place the line.

Quote from: DumbFruit on August 10, 2016, 01:01:09 PM

Thread;
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1085273.0

Something weird must have happened to the forum's search feature. "Confidential transactions" was not hitting that thread.